Re: [Emacs-diffs] master fbda511: Fix cps--gensym

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> format is already significantly more expensive than make-symbol, so
>> obviously, make-symbol + format will be even worse.
> OK but this doesn't impact runtime, right? All the hard work will be
> done in compile time.

No, it only impacts the macroexpansion time/space.  But the point is
that if you don't care about that, then you should use the
cl-gensym version.  The make-symbol version is the "fast path", so making
it fat&slow makes no sense.


        Stefan